This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

Seriously, fuck this. I'm so sick of our profession's cowardice. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Hope the folks at the Times are happy with the role they played in platforming and legitimizing this know nothing bigot propagandist.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

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The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

“Dhillon reposted a conservative lawyer’s social media comment last month that it was a good time to graduate from law school “if you are remotely rightwing” because “you can go straight . . . into DOJ”. She added: “We are hiring, y’all!” They can’t fill the openings with competent lawyers.

The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. The video does not show Allen firing. Assessing other video evidence, an expert told the Post that there were six shots in all. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I made a donation to the SPLC today. If someone reading this can (or did) make one and will quote this post, maybe we can get a chain thing going and help this storied group of wonderful people in their hour of need.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you. Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

Today, President Obama and Mayor Mamdani read for kids at a pre-K learning center in South Bronx

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

If only there was photo evidence of that lie

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Melania Trump: The lies linking me with Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. I've never been friends with Epstein. I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence.

We’re in the incredibly short period where you can pretend to do news by AIing it. The modality is parasitic on real news sources, which it’s killing off. We’ll be left with nothing but hallucinated slop.

Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States of America than any foreign enemy accomplished in our nation’s 250-year history.

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

this whole"they were fooled by evil politicians" thing is a whole crock of BS, the politicians literally just said what these people wanted to hear and vote for

Trump derangement syndrome isn't real. But Trump normalisation syndrome very much is.

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%. It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant. But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.

The US Department of War Crimes.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Seems to me this is the job of our government— you know, the one that belongs to us— rather than that of a giant financial services corporation.

Dutch newspaper cartoon

Don’t care how red your area/state is. We’re in an environment where shocking results are possible anywhere. Now you might not be able to flip a Sen seat in OK or a Gov seat in WV. But you might flip mayors, town councils, county legislatures, etc. Get involved locally, no matter where you are.

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS